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Originally Posted by Janszoon
You're assuming all the Christian dates are right but there is absolutely no reason to do so. The fact is that the Jesus story has antecedents from hundred and hundreds of years before the events supposedly occurred, plenty of time to evolve into the Christian version.
Also, this argument you're making that "people really believed it so it must be true" basically implies that anything and everything people ever strongly believed was true is actually a fact. So do you think Hercules was a real person too?
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Now come on. At this point I really think you should try and put on a counter-thesis. You think that the story of Jesus evolved over hundreds of years, and then all of a sudden coagulated into this incredibly split personality, and they all weirdly think he is from Nazareth, and they all weirdly think he was killed by Pilatus. That is really a coincidence. I don't think you would get many historians to believe that.
Your implication about Hercules makes no sense. Reductio ad absurdum. Really, if you want to be so scientific, bring up a counter-thesis, and we'll discuss how believable that one is.
The thing is: You can get absolute proof about very few people from that time. Aristoteles, Platon, Socrates. All of that could conceivably have been constructed after the fact, from oral traditions. Do you question their existence as well?